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Self-Organizing Maps for the Automatic Interpretation of Crowd Dynamics

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Advances in Visual Computing (ISVC 2008)

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This paper introduces the use of self-organizing maps for the visualization of crowd dynamics and to learn models of the dominant motions of crowds in complex scenes. The self-organizing map (SOM) model is a well known dimensionality reduction method proved to bear resemblance with characteristics of the human brain, representing sensory input by topologically ordered computational maps. This paper proposes algorithms to learn and compare crowd dynamics with the SOM model. Different information is employed as input to the used SOM. Qualitative and quantitative results are presented in the paper.

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  1. Digital Imaging Research Centre, Faculty of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics, Kingston University, UK

    B. Zhan, P. Remagnino, N. Monekosso & S. A. Velastin

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

    George Bebis

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Bahram Parvin

  4. Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, USA

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  5. Digital Image Research Center, Kingston University, London, UK

    Paolo Remagnino

  6. Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, P.O. Box 02139, Cambridge, MA, USA

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  7. Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida, P.O. Box, FL 32611-6120, Gainsville, USA

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Zhan, B., Remagnino, P., Monekosso, N., Velastin, S.A. (2008). Self-Organizing Maps for the Automatic Interpretation of Crowd Dynamics. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5358. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89639-5_42

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